Caster-socket for metallic bedsteads.



PATENTED MAY 22, 1906.

W. G. FISCHER. GASTER SOCKET FOR METALLIC BEDSTBADS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 27, 1905.-

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WILLIAM CHARLES FISCHER, OF HUNTINGTON, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF FIFTY ONEHUNDREDTHS TO MAURICE LACHMAN, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

(MISTER-SOCKET FOR METALLIC BEDSTEADS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

JIELGEILDQCL may 22, 1906.

Continuation of application Serial No. 195,890, filed February 29,1904- This application filed .Tuly 2'7, 1905. Serial No. 271,529.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM CHARLES FISCHER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Huntington, in the county of Suffolk and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Caster-Sockets for Metallic Bedsteads; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled. in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in furniture-casters, particularly with reference to an attaching device or socket therefor whereby a caster may be secured in the socket in the leg of an article of furniture, the said attaching device being a spring device adapted to accommodate itself to the diameter of the socket in the leg of the article to which it is attached; and my invention consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed, and is particularly intended for use in connection with iron bedsteads or furniture.

Under date of February 29, 1904, I filed an application for a patent, Serial No. 195,890, of which the present application is a continuation. I

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a caster provided with an attaching device embodying my improvements and being a vertical section of the lower portion of a leg of an article of furniture in which the attaching device of the easter is socketed. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same, taken on the plane indicated by the line a a in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the blank from which my improved attaching device is made. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of my improved attaching device.

The caster may be of any suitable form. In the case herein shown the frame is indicated at a and the roller at b. The pintle c, which extends upwardly from the frame, has its lower portion swiveled to the latter, as at d, and the said pintle is provided near its lower end with a disk (2, which bears on the upper side of the frame.

In the embodiment of my invention I provide a plate-blank 1, which is made of steel or other suitable metal, preferably spring metal. The plate is rectangular in form, of suitable length, width, and thickness, and its intermediate portion midway between its ends is provlded with a plurality of longitu dinally-disposed slits 3 of suitable length and suitably s3aced apart, the spaces between the said slits forming bands l. Thelatter are alternately bent laterally at their central portions from opposite sides of the plate a sufiicient distance to form an opening between them, through which the pintle of the caster may be inserted, as shown, the said bands bearing alternately 011 opposite sides of the pintle and serve to secure the plate I firmly and yet detachably thereon. The ends of the plate are reversely curved to form springwings 5. The attaching device may be inserted in the socket of the leg of a piece of furniture, and the wings 5 of the attaching device being spring-wings adapting the device to be fitted in sockets which vary in diameter, and, moreover, the said spring-wings by hearing against opposite sides of the socket serve to secure the attaching device therein, as will be understood.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Having thus described my invention, what I' claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An attaching device for casters comprising a plate having its ends bent to form spring-wings to retain the device in a socket and having its intermediate portion provided with longitudinal slits forming hands be tween them, the said bands being bent laterally in opposite directions from the plate to receive the pintle of a caster between them.

2. A spring attaching device for casters comprising a plate having ends reversely curved to form spring-wings and having its intermediate portion provided with longitudinal slits forming bands between them, the

said bands being bent laterally in opposite directions from the plate to receive the pintle of the caster between them.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM CHARLES FISCHER.

Witnesses JOHN WM. J ONES, Tnos. S. GALLAHANV 

